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Actually, by some measures (e.g. life expectancy) Louisiana ranks well below Cuba and somewhat below the more developed Anglophone countries (Antigua, Barbados, maybe some others). So, not first in the Caribbean either (at least with respect to life expectancy).

I doubt you’d be #1 at anything even in the Caribbean. For instance Bermuda has the 3rd highest income in the world. And the literacy rate in Cuba is higher, while the infant mortality rate is lower. Though perhaps you could make top five in political corruption.

I was in New Orleans for a Jungian Psychology Conference and Louisiana sure *felt* like nowhere else in the country. It really has that caribbean feel to it. The slow pace of life, the history etc … Now here’s an observation. Puerto Rico has asked to join the union as a state, so why don’t we just swap PR for another state so we can keep the flag at 50 stars. So who should we swap it for??? Texas perhaps??

Don’t worry, I’ll unharsh your mellow: Louisiana would have the best football team in all of the Caribbean (but of course, we would have to specify which football; if it’s the football the world cares most about about, you would suck, even for a Caribbean nation). So the mellow was only relatively unharshed, I guess.

Cosimano… even suggesting that Benjamin Butler made it to Purgatory is fighting words for someone from the New Orleans area…he was a horrible little man worthy of having the chamber pot dumped on him.

It used to be that many in Louisiana and around the country believed that the United States might not object all that much to it leaving the union…hell, when David Duke was running high in the polls for U.S. Senate and then Governor many of us thought that the United States would actually ASK Louisiana to leave.

If Louisiana tries to secede, the result would be the same as last time: New Orleans would be captured early and “sit out the war”. The state would collapse after drones destroy all the plants that produce hot sauce. This time, however, we should let the Mississippi River run its natural course and take care of the problem once and for all……naturally, organically.

The White House petition site has been filling up with these for every state (and various related petitions) since Election Day.

At this point, Louisiana’s petition has crossed the 25,000-signer threshold which supposedly will yield an eventual response. The other states above the threshold at this writing, in descending order, are Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. (The next two below the threshold are South Carolina and Arkansas.)

Something seems oddly familiar about that list of states… I’m sure it will come to me eventually….

Those who revel in cherry-picking statistics to expose the South as a third-world desert have obviously never been there, just as those from the South who revel in depicting the North as a giant, godless ghetto have obviously never been there.

No I meant Bermuda, though the Bahamas also likely kick Louisiana’s butt too. Bermuda, despite it’s location, is generally considered part of the Caribbean cultural zone characterised by the legacy of slavery and the plantation system. Bermuda is also a member of the “Caribeean Community” (sort of like the European Community, but with more palm trees)

“Those who revel in cherry-picking statistics to expose the South as a third-world desert have obviously never been there, just as those from the South who revel in depicting the North as a giant, godless ghetto have obviously never been there.”

On a mellow-unharshing note, infant mortality and life-expectancy data from Cuba can be considered downright falsified, as they do not include any deaths of premature infants (!). Similarly, any other data from that regime should be treated with a heavy grain of salt.

“Similarly, any other data from that regime should be treated with a heavy grain of salt.”

Well, living in a state, South Carolina, where our GOP government just let the barn door open for the entire public citizen records of personal data to some 4 pack a day, East European hacker, I’d be ok with some false data to throw the scent off.

Hey Rod, can you guys at the American Conservative use this as an opportunity to hype the peerless, immortal, giant-among-men Bill Kauffman’s Bye Bye Miss American Empire? Pretty Please? Such a great book.

After my ancestors fought so hard to NOT let Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and of course South Carolina, leave the union, why are all these northern liberal elitists demanding that they all go together?

Actually given the state of the greenback, old Confederate currency is actually a good thing to have….I’m talking about selling some of it to collectors.

This is quite hilarious….

Rod, isn’t Edwin Edwards a little old to run things? I’m sure he still looks good and is probably in good shape all around but the guy has to be in 80’s , right?

I actually lament the fact that the body politic no longer has scoundrels and rascals like Edwards around anymore. It was great fun back in the day. Would love to see Edwards debate someone like Obama, or a Clinton. Couldn’t you see him against a Bill Clinton, he could call Clinton an amateur on the whole extramarital affair thing and it would have real juice and Clinton would probably have to agree.